TEXT: Building A Modern Liberal Party by Alfred Apps
Here’s a link to the entire 79 page document.Building A Modern Liberal PartyIn the wake of the Canadian federal election of May 2, 2011, the Liberal Party of Canada (“LPC”…
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Elephants and escaped steers: Huffington Post blogs
Some exciting news – I’m now a contributor to the Huffington Post Canada! Law school has kept me busy enough that there’s not much time to blog on here, but…
Oil Companies Need Some Patience
The U.S. is still somewhat of a democracy. Obama knows that he has to act like an environmentalist for another year. The oil companies will get their way, I am…
Group Raises $40,000 on Kickstarter to Film Disappearing Magicians
No pun intended! A threatened colony of magicians in India will be digitally preserved at least by a group that put together a proposal and posted it on Kickstarter. The…
Today’s War On Everything News
I’m going to run out of titles for these daily wraps for my radio program in a hurry. I’m hoping the links and videos are of use and get sent…
How do you tell someone you love them when you are dead
Someone is pushing bad shit out there tonight, my busy ER nurse informed me. Apparently seven ODs on a Sunday night is large number at the Credit Valley ER. Patients…
Recap: Saskatchewan Election 2011
Watching the twitter feed for #skpoli I was struck by the animosity and venom towards both the NDP and its leader Dwain Lingenfelter. While the partisan in me wants to…
Tuesday At The Radio Show
I wish I could get it all together: the radio show, the podcast and the blog. Truth is I do it alone and simply run out of steam and so…
A perfect example of Harper’s antipathy towards Canada
This nonsense of replacing the beaver as a symbol of Canada with the polar bear shows just how much Harper hates the country he governs. The beaver has been our…
I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GOING TO LIVEBLOG THE SASKATCHEWAN ELECTION AND NEITHER CAN MY FAMILY
IT’S A GOOD THING I DON’T KNOW AN AWFUL LOT ABOUT THE SASKATCHEWAN ELECTION BECAUSE IT SEEMS TOO DEPRESSING TO THINK ABOUT. ALSO THE KIDS ARE UPSET THAT THEY MAY…
Generational Occupancy
I don’t know what’s going on. I’ve been away for far too long. It looks like my world may have started to change. The long haired freaky occupation. Has been…
Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 7, 2011 MEDIA ALERT Unions Call on City to let Occupy Calgary stay. The city of Calgary has been contemplating evicting Occupy Calgary Activists from Olympic…
Sen. Bert Brown Confirms What PDO Readers Already Knew
Namely that Postmedia News got it wrong on the Senator’s new override proposal for a reformed Senate.Re: “Father of Triple-E Senate rethinks ‘equal’ part?; Proposal gives Ontario, Quebec veto power…
Wedge
The hiring of a uni-lingual English speaker has nothing to do about qualifications. Like everything else with this government, it is about throwing meat to the base and practicing wedge…
Big-Oil Monopolies Engage in Price-Gouging
Last week Exxon-Mobil announced their 2011 third-quarter earnings, reporting $10.3 billion in profits, which is an increase of 41 percent from the same period last year. So far, Exxon has…
Apparently Canadian women have a way to go…
Canada lags behind countries like Burundi, Latvia and Guyana when it comes to how much political power women wield relative to men, a new report suggests.. And…? Not to be…
At Last
Something the Legion and I agree about. We made a compact with these people and we have to live up to it. It will be interesting to see how the…
Some Truth About The Tar Sands
There has been an unending stream of propaganda coming from the people in big-oil about the tar sands. In particular a group that calls themselves CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum…